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Word: sweets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who like the sweet little quaverings of Bobby Breen (and it stands to reason that there are some), "Breaking the Ice" serves up a home-cooked dish with Mennonites, ice-skating extravaganzas, and eucalyptus trees in Pennsylvania. Most people will prefer Donald Duck's current...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/7/1938 | See Source »

...maids and men, hark well to me, Sing Aleluya-wellaway! Full blest shall such a wooing be, Sing hey, God loves a lover! For they that meet in chapel cell, Are wooed and won and wedded well; Their lives ring sweet like chiming bell, Forever and forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Friar Tuck | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Hart lives with his mother, whom he describes as "a sweet, menacing old lady" on middle-class Central Park West, scowls at white ties, gives manners-be-damned, whiskey-by-the-case, all-night free-for-alls, gets bored with people and keeps picking up new ones. Rodgers takes the world in his stride; Hart is tempted to protest, fume, explain, deprecate - argues, for ex ample, with the desk-clerk of a Khartoum hotel because it does not carry Variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Boys From Columbia | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Died. Antonio Ajello, 78, master candlemaker; of a heart attack; in The Bronx, New York. To Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, Lindbergh, Galli-Curci, Marie of Rumania, many another big & little wig have gone sweet-scented Ajello tapers, fashioned from a formula that has been a family secret for 165 years. Most famed Ajello candle, world's largest, is 18 feet high and five feet around, weighs almost a ton, cost $3,700. Raised by public subscription in 1921 as a memorial to Enrico Caruso, it now stands in the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy), where it burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...warmth calculated to reawaken memories of toasty nights around the parlor baseburner, Mother Carey's Chickens joins Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's homely Judge Hardy and Twentieth Century-Fox's happy-go-lucky Jones Family in cinema's new grand march to the tune of Home, Sweet Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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